The Coen Brothers' Best Picture winner is a mesmerizing and violent crime opus set in 1980 West Texas, where a man (Josh Brolin) finds a fortune in drug loot, and tries to dodge a sheriff and a bounty hunter (Javier Bardem) out to recover it. Tommy Lee Jon (more…)The Coen Brothers' Best Picture winner is a mesmerizing and violent crime opus set in 1980 West Texas, where a man (Josh Brolin) finds a fortune in drug loot, and tries to dodge a sheriff and a bounty hunter (Javier Bardem) out to recover it. Tommy Lee Jones. Nominated for eight Oscars, the film won four, including Best Supporting Actor (Bardem), Direction and Adapted Screenplay. Based on the Cormac McCarthy 2005 bestseller. The film title is from a line in Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium."